Given its proposed focus on community law, Singapore’s third law school should be located in the heartlands and kept separate from existing law schools so that it can cultivate a distinct identity, members on a national committee tasked to look at the supply of lawyers told TODAY.  That said, there is also value in leveraging on existing law faculties at NUS and SMU by making the new school an extension of either or even both schools, since resources and infrastructure are already in place, said Stamford Law Corporation Director Yap Wai Ming, who co-chairs the working group on demand, in the Fourth Committee on the Supply of Lawyers. TSMP Law Corporation joint Managing Director Stephanie Yuen-Thio said the third law school could be sited within the community to create an authentic learning experience. Asked whether the school should be an extension of the NUS and SMU law schools – where many graduates pursue corporate law – she said: “Don’t put them in an environment where they feel they are not seen as the cream of the crop ... it is important to have an environment where (community law practice) is highly encouraged (too).”  The Deans of both law schools also cited capacity constraints, among other things, in the committee’s report.